Word: waking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of serious questioning of the recent Class Marshal elections, the Student Council last night voted to establish a committee "to investigate the possibility of changing election procedure" for all balloting under its supervision...
Following an established world-wide trend, the University began the Fall Term with a shuffle in regime when it announced that Dean Leighton was to become Master of Dudley House, and John U. Monro was to serve as Dean of the College. In the wake of this move there followed weekly mass executions before thousands gathered in Soldier's Field Stadium, which the Administration cleverly passed off under the guise of football games...
...silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." It is an interval of cosmic suspense; the hymns of the heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before its impending doom. It is during this interim, between life and death, that The Seventh Seal takes place...
...globe this week the elite of the Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China's Chou En-lai arrived by plane, leaving Mao and the rest of the Chinese leadership behind, obviously preoccupied. In Chou's wake moved lesser lights, ranging from East Germany's Walter Ulbricht down to James Jackson, the U.S. Communist Party's secretary for Southern and Negro affairs...
Little machine, don't wake up You're sick, sick, sick...